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EDITORIALS: Kamran Abbasi and Fiona Godlee Next steps in trial registration BMJ 2005; 330: 1222-1223 [Full text]

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Peter C Arnold   (21 June 2005)

Registration of clinical trials 21 June 2005
Peter C Arnold, Former GP, freelance medical editor Sydney, Australia Send response to journal: Re: Registration of clinical trials	Am I alone in being puzzled by Abbasi's and Godlee's reasoning? If the underlying stimulus to the creation of a register is distrust of pharmaceutical companies, with their profit motivation, why would the BMJ wish to entrust any part of this new venture to any 'for-profit' entity? Competing interests: None declared